August 2016

Arms Dealing Is Subject of Hollywood Comedy

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, a Woman of Honor, Confronts Senate of Scoundrels

Playing the Lesser Evil Game to the Hilt

Has Turkey Overplayed Its Hand in Syria?

Why Hillary is the Perfect Person to Secure Obama’s Legacy

Human Shields as Preemptive Legal Defense for Killing Civilians

Ukraine and the Dumbed-Down New York Times Columnist

The New Cold War Between the US and China

Ending California’s Machinery of Death

Women, Party Politics, and the Power of the Naked Body

Turkey Invades Syria, America Spins The Bottle

The Politics of Bigotry: Trump and the Black Voter

How Did Syria and the Rest Do in the Olympics?

A Letter from Takae, Okinawa

Dakota Access Pipeline Tribal Liaison Formerly Worked For Agency Issuing Permit

Three Cheers for Kaepernick: Is Sitting During the National Anthem an Acceptable Form of Protest?

Matt Funiciello and the Giant Sucking Sound Coming Off Lake Champlain

Transformative Movement Culture and the Inside/Outside Strategy: Do We Want to Win the Argument or Build the Movement?

The Racism of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima Bombings

How Did the West Survive a Much Stronger Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact?

Pathology, Incorporated: the Facade of American Democracy

Turkey Breaks Out in Jarablus as Fear and Loathing Grip Europe

A Birthday Gift to the National Parks: the Maine Woods National Monument

In Ukraine: Independence From the People

Fredric Jameson’s War Machine

Sorrow and Grace in Palestine

Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against Dakota Access Pipeline

Indigenous Property Rights and the Dakota Access Pipeline

100 in Anarchist Years

Why We Should All Remain Seated: the Anti-Muslim Origins of “The Star-Spangled Banner”

The Banality of Evil and the Ivory Tower Masterminds of the 1953 Coup d’Etat in Iran

The Luck of Netanyahu

Romancing the Activist

Death to the Death Penalty in California

Does the Democratic Party Have a Progressive Platform–and Does It Matter?

Philadelphia District Attorney Hammered for Hypocrisy

The Sane Candidate: Which Representatives Will End the Endless Wars?

Hillary and the Clinton Foundation: Exemplars of America’s Political Rot

Asking the Right Questions

Meet the Geronimos: Apache Leader’s Descendants Talk About Living With the Legacy

Bernie Sanders ‘OR’ Revolution: a Statement or a Question?

Strategic Choreography and Inside/Outside Organizers

The War on Terror and the Carter Doctrine

President Obama’s “Now Watch This Drive” Moment

Dildos on Campus, Gun in the Library: the New York Times and the Texas Gun War

Iraq’s Willing Executioners

Banning Burkinis: the Politics of Beachwear

Finance is Not the Economy

Is the Nation State and Its Welfare State Dead? a Critique of Varoufakis

The Mythologies of the Nauruan Refugee Nation